Thought it was tubeless, cut it open, nope. Did someone glue the tire to the rim? Looks like the bead of the tire is somehow under the rim???
by machobiscuit
Thought it was tubeless, cut it open, nope. Did someone glue the tire to the rim? Looks like the bead of the tire is somehow under the rim???
by machobiscuit
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It’s the new weight saving trend: no sealant tubeless /s
I’ve never seen or heard of this and it seems like an awful idea
Just push the bead to the center?! Also why have you gut the tire?! What being tubless as to do with needing to cut the tire like that? This look as it should, minus the rim tape thats missing and the fact tht you cut open the tire….
The other tire says wire bead casing. Pretty sure what’s stuck to the rim is the rim tape.
Always ask questions *before* destroying things
You’re seeing the residue of the old rim tape in the rim bed (center of the rim), and it’s extremely unlikely the tires were glued on, but the rubber can get quite sticky and bind to the rim pretty well. Also maybe some residual adhesive from the tape or whatever sealant was previously in there might have helped them stick better.
I just swapped some tires out and they were *very* secure to the rim, taking some force to get off the bead.
You torched a tire for nothing.
I would love to witness the decision making process that went into cutting the tire in half
Wow, next time please take it to a shop!!
This is not what “open tubular” is supposed to mean
“What is going on here?”
Indeed we’d all like to know.
My brother why was your first thought to cut it open instead of just breaking the bead
Not sure what’s going on. Besides the tire being cut off, the tire bead looks normal in that the tire bead is supposed to go under the rims bead and lock into place. When you say it’s not tubeless – did you pull out a tube? It doesn’t like like there was any sealant on the inside of the tire. And there does seem to be residue in the rim from the rim tape being removed.
Just wondering what you were trying to accomplish here. Did you get a flat or wanting to change tires?
We have established you are not mechanicly inclined, and should go to a bikeshop for all your future bikefixing needs.. Please take better care of your bike, it will be a deathtrap if you keep butchering simple jobs like this. Its worth to spend the extra money to have a bikeshop do the work, instead of putting your own life at risk doing stuff you obviously have no clue how to do, or even have a clue how to research stuff before you start tearing it apart.
Sorry if its sounds harsh, but ur displaying behaviour that could be lethal in the future, for you or anyone close to you when ur out on the bike.
You’re mistaking a tight and tough wire bead for a bead glued down. Bust out the Pedro’s tire levers and get ready to get a workout while you unseat the bead.
For future reference these are harder to get off with the bulk of the tire cut off than with the whole tire intact. God speed.
You shoulda used the Kung Fu grip, and popped the beads to the center of the rim.
It was tubeless. I can see residue of the rim tape. I highly doubt that the tire bead was glued to the rim hook. Some tubeless tires really do adhere to the hook, it can be difficult to unseat the bead.
Cutting the tire off because you couldn’t unseat the bead is only necessary if you’re going to trash the tire. Even then you want to figure out the proper process, practice makes perfect.
Search “how to unseat tubeless bicycle tire bead”
[here’s one video](https://share.google/DfUyGGTbP5WkLOam2)
ghetto tubeless setup that’s all
I’ve seen these cheap wheelset that literally glue the bead on the rim, OP probably had to cut the tire off to get access to the bead. Others I’ve seen pretty much destroyed the rim getting them off…
What’s really scary is that I’ve seen bike shops do this because they couldn’t get a tyre with an insert off…
Question for you: did you happen to have the wheels in your car for a few hours?
Cheap tire on there long enough for the rubber to adhere itself to the cheap rim.
Kill it with fire.
It looks like a solid tire that’s glued to the rim.
Do you see any valves to inflate the tire on the wheel? If there’s none then it’s a solid tire. Solid tires get no flats.
Another possibility is Tubular tires. Tubular tires have the inner tubes sewed inside the tires. You glue (or tape) tubular tires on the rim.
I love how everyone chose to insult the OP and call them a weak idiot instead of assuming they were legit stuck☠️😂 got to love reddit
Can you measure the rim diameter and find the tire dimensions? Perhaps someone through sheer stubbornness stretched the wrong size tire onto the rim (although that would have been quite a feat!).
650A, B and C are all relatively close, as are 27 inch and 700C. Perhaps some budget department store bike was built with some old stock rims or tires that the manufacturer wanted to find a use for.